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WASHING MACHINE.

No. 325,076. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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WASHING MACHINE.

Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH O. HARDNVICK, OF COLORADO CITY, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO EDW'IN S.BUMSTEAD AND JOHN J. CORUM, OF COLORADO SPRINGS, RIDDLE REEVES ANDSAMUEL ALSOP, JR., OF DENVER, COLORADO, AND DAVID SCULL, JR, OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,076, dated August25, 1885.

Application filed April 24, 1684.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JosEPH O. HARDWIOK, a citizen of the United States,residing in Colorado City, county of El Paso, State of C010- rado, haveinvented certain Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention consists of certain improvements, fully described andclaimed hereinaf- 1o ter, in the washingmachine for which Letters PatentNo. 274,190 were granted to me March In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a vertical section of washing-ma- 1 chine with myimprovements; Fig. 2, Sheet 2, a perspective view showing the rear ofone of the rubber-frames with the rubber; Fig. 3,

a perspective view of the clothes-holder, and

Fig. 4 a sectional view of the upper bar of one of the rubber frames.

The wash'tub O is of rectangular form, is made by preference of sheetmetal, and has a top, 0, forming a permanent part of the tub and of theflanged tray B. Each rubber- 2 5 frame is composed in the presentinstance of the two bars d d and transverse connectingbars 0, e, and cand each rubber consists of the two bars G G, transverse roundedslats h,and the upper transverse bar, t.

The two bars G G of each rubber are connected at their lower ends to thelower crossbar of a rubber-frame, the connections being in the presentinstance staples f but other devices which will permit the rubber 5 tobe vibrated on the rubber frame may be adopted.

Two springs, m m, are interposed between each rubber and the frame towhich it is connected, and the rubber and frame are further 40 connectedtogether at the top by chains in, as

in my former patent.

The clothes-holder shown in Fig. 3, and the mechanism for operating it,are also the same as in my former patent; hence it will suffice thereforto remark here that the clothes to be washed are clamped to the holder,and

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the latter reciprocated between the rubbers, between which the clothesare pressed by the springs m.

In the top 0 of the wash-tub there is an oblong opening, 92, which isjust wide enough and long enough to permit the withdrawal from the saidtub of a rubber-frame and rubher, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig.1, this withdrawal being easily effected in the absence of theclothes-holder from the said opening, after first pressing the rubberand rubber-frame together at the top. For this purpose the boards a inmy patent above cited, and which were secured to and remov- 6o able withthe rubber-frames, are dispensed with, so that the tops of the saidframes can be contracted, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

It is important to prevent splashing of the water and suds as far aspossible, and for this reason the wash-tub is permanently closed andwater-tight at the top, excepting at the opening a, and this iscontracted as far as the necessity for the occasional removal of the 7crubbers and rubber-frames and the introduc tion of the holder andclothes into the tub will permit.

Whatever water may escape through this contracted opening, or may bewithdrawn 7 5 with the clothes, will be caught by the flanged tray, andwill find its way back into the tub.

It will be noted in referring to Figs. 1 and 4. that the upper bar, 17,of each rubber is so rounded that the two bars present a flaringentrance to the space between the two rubbers, and, as the rounded facesof these bars are subjected to great wear, I face them with sheet metal'20.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the rubber and removablerubber-frames with a wash-tub having a top, 0, forming a permanent partof the tub, and provided with a contracted opening, it, of a size topermit the withdrawal of the rubber and rubber-frames, substantially asset forth.

2. The combination of a wash-tub having a top, c, forining a permanentpart of the tub,

and provided with a contracted opening, at,

with a rubber and rubber-frames, having 5 their upper ends free to becontracted to withdraw said frames from the tub through the opening 12,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

- JOSEPH O. HARDVVIOK. 'Wi tn csses:

W. H. HOAGLAND,

S. J. OARUTHER.

